Madonna (Photo: Janet Mayer / PR Photos)
Madonna was a "loony" at school, and felt "stranded and estranged" from the other children.
The `Celebration` singer spoke out against bullying, when she appeared on `The Ellen DeGeneres Show` on US TV. She told the server how she could empathize with new people who feel alone, saying: "I can completely relate to the mind of feeling isolated and alienated.
I was incredibly lonely as a child, as a teenager. I bear to say I never felt like I fit in, in school. I wasn`t a jock. I wasn`t an intellectual. There was no group that I felt a portion of. I simply felt like a weirdo." The singer, 52, added she even feels "different", but praised the gay community where she grew up in New York for their support. She then went on to part her worry over a present spate of teen suicides in the US.
She added: "I`m incredibly disturbed and saddened by the overwhelming amount of teen suicides that have been reported lately because of bullying.
"Teenagers committing suicide is extremely disturbing, but to see that teenagers are winning their lives because they are being bullied in schools and dormitories is sort of unfathomable."
Madonna (Photo: Janet Mayer / PR Photos)
Madonna also said she makes an attempt to train her children - Lourdes, 13, Rocco, ten, and adopted David Banda, five, and Mercy James, four - on their social responsibilities and not judging others.
She said: "We sing a lot near the grandness of not judging people who are different - not judging people who don`t fit into our expected view of what`s cool and what isn`t.
"The conception that we are torturing teenagers because they are gay - it`s unfathomable. It`s like lynching black people or Hitler exterminating Jews. Sorry if I`m going on a rampage right now, but this is America. The kingdom of the discharge and the place of the brave."
yea right. hasn`t madonna been open as being abit of a tyrant herself.All these celebs are doing is jump on the "oh I was an outcast and bullied myself" bandwagon, just to get publicity.Pathetic.
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